EXCLUSIVE: How Plot For Tinubu’s 2023 Presidential Bid Influenced Ambode’s 2019 Sack

Mr Akinwunmi Ambode was stopped from going for a second term in office as governor of Lagos State by the powerful kingmakers in control of the state chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC for the reason of allowing a more pliable governor to support the 2023 presidential aspiration of the party’s national leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.

GWG reports that ahead of the second term bid of Ambode that fears arose that he could be an impediment for Tinubu’s presidential bid on the basis that had he won a second term in 2019, that he could have become uncontrollable and as such a significant threat to Tinubu in 2023.                                                                                                                                                   

GWG reports that Ambode was in October, 2018 shoved aside by the apex body Governance Advisory Council, GAC in favour of the incumbent, Babajide Sanwo-Olu.

 “There is more to the sack of Ambode that many people may not know,” a political operative who worked in the Ambode government told GWG.

Giving further insight, the source who had a mutual relationship with Ambode and Tinubu at the same time revealed:

“The fact is that they perceived that if Ambode got a second term that he could become uncontrollable when the 2023 presidential project would be in full swing and could become an obstacle.

Noting comparison with the incumbent governor, Sanwo-Olu, the source added:

“You can see that Sanwo-Olu because he is in his first term easily succumbed and has been giving every logistic support for the 2023 project something that they feared that Ambode could not do,” the source added.

GWG reports that Ambode to the amazement of his traducers truly went on to fight back after he was rejected by the GAC in the party primary but lost in the primary election.

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